by Colin Thomas | Apr 21, 2024 | Review
Something alchemical is going on here: You used to call me Marie… sustains itself longer than logic tells me it should. The play’s success doesn’t last all the way to the end of its 90 minutes, but there are significant forces at work here. Tai Amy Grauman’s...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 26, 2024 | Review
I have a very strong hunch that, if any other person who was in the audience with me last night had the opportunity to review The Mirror, they’d be giving it a more enthusiastic write-up than I’m about to. When they were all on their feet, clapping wildly, I was in my...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 25, 2023 | Review
(Photo by Emily Cooper) Year after year, almost without fail, Theatre Replacement’s East Van Pantos are some of the most innovative, entertaining productions we see all season. Beauty and the Beast is one of the best. Co-writers Jivesh Parasram and Christine Quintana...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 24, 2022 | Review
Hot Brown Honey: The Remix is one of the best political rallies you’ve ever going to attend — because it’s also a big, loud, slick party. The Honeys, as they call themselves, are an ever-changing feminist group from Australia that’s made up of Indigenous women and...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 21, 2022 | Review
I didn’t get what I thought I was in for, but I did get a very good time. Cirque Alfonse is a humble Québecois company: the acrobats and musicians are all either members of the Carabinier Lépine family or their friends. And Animal is a humble show that riffs — in...